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Fronto: Selected Letters
Dr Caillan Davenport
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M. Cornelius Fronto was a Roman senator from North Africa, and the foremost Latin orator and legal advocate of the mid-second century A.D. Fronto’s talent and fame led to his appointment as tutor to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, the adoptive sons of the emperor Antoninus Pius, in the late 130s A.D. Fronto’s extant correspondence, discovered in the early nineteenth century, consists of around two hundred letters extending over a period of more than twenty-five years, from the late 130s to the mid-160s A.D. In this period, Fronto educated Marcus and Verus in the art of Latin rhetoric, ... Read more
M. Cornelius Fronto was a Roman senator from North Africa, and the foremost Latin orator and legal advocate of the mid-second century A.D. Fronto’s talent and fame led to his appointment as tutor to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, the adoptive sons of the emperor Antoninus Pius, in the late 130s A.D. Fronto’s extant correspondence, discovered in the early nineteenth century, consists of around two hundred letters extending over a period of more than twenty-five years, from the late 130s to the mid-160s A.D. In this period, Fronto educated Marcus and Verus in the art of Latin rhetoric, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780934426
SKU
V9781780934426
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About Dr Caillan Davenport
Caillan Davenport is a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. His research focuses on Roman imperial history and historiography, on which he has published articles in Classical Quarterly, Papers of the British School at Rome, and Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. Jennifer Manley has a PhD in Classics from the University of ... Read more
Reviews for Fronto: Selected Letters
This book provides a very good introduction to Fronto; the writing style, both in the translation and in the commentary, is a model of clarity.
Tim Parkin, The University of Manchester, UK
Tim Parkin, The University of Manchester, UK